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In this installation of our Student Spotlight series, Guy Dabby-Joory interviews James Onona, the president of the Oxford Jewish society. What is Oxford JSoc? Oxford JSoc is the Oxford University Jewish Society, and in my opinion it’s the best society at Oxford (although I may be slightly biased!). How did you get involved with the JSoc? […]
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Image description: Jeremy Corbyn and Adam Roble sitting on chairs in the Oxford Union’s chamber. Guy Dabby-Joory reports on Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance at the Oxford Union, and The Oxford Student’s subsequent interview with the former Labour leader. On the afternoon of 20th May, Jeremy Corbyn MP, the former Leader of the Opposition, came to speak […]
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Image Description: A turquoise and white banner with the words “Student Union Election 2021: Meet the Candidates” overlaid over a black and white image of the Radcliffe Camera. In the run up to the SU President By-Election, the Oxford Student has put together a series of interviews with the candidates to find out more about them and […]
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Image Description: A turquoise and white banner with the words “Student Union Election 2021: Meet the Candidates” overlaid over a black and white image of the Radcliffe Camera. In the run up to the SU President By-Election, the Oxford Student has put together a series of interviews with the candidates to find out more about them […]
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Image Description: A turquoise and white banner with the words “Student Union Election 2021: Meet the Candidates” overlaid over a black and white image of the Radcliffe Camera. In the run up to the SU President By-Election, the Oxford Student has put together a series of interviews with the candidates to find out more about them […]
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If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or Instagram in recent months, you may have come across a certain type of ‘haul’ post (where a person shows off or reviews a number of purchases to the camera) entitled “what I receive in a week as a micro influencer”. It may seem unusual that someone with […]
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The latest alumni interview is with Vashti Bunyan, who studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the 1960s. The singer-songwriter has had a decidedly unique career – disenchanted by the lack of commercial success achieved by her debut album Just Another Diamond Day after its release in 1970, Bunyan abandoned music. Over the […]
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Image Description: a headshot of Siân Berry against the backdrop of a drawing of Oxford’s skyline and the text ‘Siân Berry: Alumni Series’ This week’s alumni is Siân Berry, a former Materials Science student at Trinity College who went on to become politically active within the Green Party. Since 2018 she has been co-leader of […]
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Image description: the text ‘Oxford University Liberal Democrats est 1913’ against a background photo of students socialising with an orange tinted overlay and the Student Spotlight logo As a mini series within the ongoing Student Spotlight series, we will be interviewing three student political societies: Oxford University Conservative Association, Oxford University Labour Club and Oxford […]
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Bethan Roberts spoke to Lily Sheldon, Kate Dorkins, and the Oxford Must Act Committee about their work mobilising and campaigning for refugee’s rights in Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic. What is your society and why is it important? Our group is called Oxford Must Act and is a new grassroots movement. It is attached to […]
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IntoGrad is a new organisation working to increase the accessibility of postgraduate study, which has long been an issue. Here we find out more from Emma Lalande and Dom McGann, two postgraduate students studying at Oxford. What is IntoGrad? IntoGrad is a non-profit organisation that aims to demystify the postgraduate application process, and combat the […]
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Image description: the text The Oxford Revue with amber lines against a dark blue background and the Student Spotlight logo We spoke to the Oxford Revue, the University’s long running and well established comedy group about the projects its members are working on, its esteemed alumni and the struggles of performing virtual stand up comedy. […]
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Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open! All applications consist of a written application and following this you may be called to an interview with the new Editors in Chief for Trinity term 2021, Isaac and Natasha. News Team applicants may also be required to send in an example […]
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Image description: a picture of Jenny and a cat at home CW: transphobia The Oxford Student spoke to Jenny Elizabeth Scoones, a third year English student at Mansfield and pop singer/songwriter about her upcoming single, trans rights in the UK and creating art in a pandemic. Your new single, Always Known, comes out on March […]
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Image description: the text Oxford University Conservative Association against a dark blue background and the Student Spotlight logo As a mini series within the ongoing Student Spotlight series, we will be interviewing three student political societies: Oxford University Conservative Association, Oxford University Labour Club and Oxford University Liberal Democrats. To start off with, we spoke […]
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Image Description: a headshot of Amelia Fletcher against the backdrop of a drawing of Oxford’s skyline and the text ‘Amelia Fletcher: Alumni Series’ This week’s alumni has had a double career of sorts. In one world, she is a respected economist: former chief economist at the Office of Fair Trading and now Deputy Director at […]
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We spoke to Susmita Dave of People for Womxn* in Philosophy (pwip) and Alicehank Winham of Oxford Public Philosophy (opp) about how their organisations are challenging and changing ideas of how philosophy should be studied at Oxford. Note regarding capitalisation: we use capital letters strategically (who controls and monitors the form of YOUR language?) What […]
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Image Description: Graphic of students protesting with Peace Silly pictured. Reads ‘Artists and Activists featuring Peace Silly’ As part of our Artists and Activists series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Peace Silly, one of the founders of the youth-led non-profit organisation, PeriodLink. Since 2019, PeriodLink has worked to keep young people in the Volta […]
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Image description: a leaf holding a cityscape, and the word nature, with the BSHR logo on a white background. In this student spotlight we’ve spoken to Calista Chong, the chairperson of BSHR, and Ernest, co-founder, to find out more about the publication. What is the Broad Street Humanities Review and why is it important? Calista: […]
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